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Monday, Oct 28 2013, 6AM
R.I.P. Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, 1942 - 2013. He passed away yesterday at the age of 71
A concept album of sorts whereby Reed ruminated on the deaths of two close friends - songwriter Doc Pomus and a woman known as "Rita" (assumed to be Warhol Factory figure Rotten Rita)
The earliest version of "Heroin" was recorded in the band's Ludlow Street loft in 1965
Co-written with his brother, Roger, and Daniel Lanois
Unsurprisingly, this Velvet Underground cover appears on her covers record
Arcade Fire LIVE TONIGHT on KEXP - 7:00 pm PST on El Sonido with DJ Chilly!
The pair reunited - the first time since White Light / White Heat - after the death of Andy Warhol in 1987 to pay tribute to their mentor and patron in this cycle of songs about his life and times
Loaded with hits, as they say
The Toronto band's take was based on VU's version of the song from their 1969: Velvet Underground Live LP
In mourning times such as these, you have to mix just the right amount of mope + solemnity with your indie pop
ARCADE FIRE ALERT - they're playing live TONIGHT at 7:00 pm PST on KEXP!
Lou Reed's ode to NYC in one, tidy LP (whose cover art, with a posturing, jeans-clad Reed, screams "Yo, buddy, I'm penning pointed, pensive songs here, watch it!")
All you kids out there: learn to play guitar like Tom Verlaine
Appears on their 1973 S/T debut (also released as a single b/w "Personality Crisis")
Recorded at the Record Plant concurrently with Lou Reed in 1977. Here's a clip of her discussing his album Transformer - youtu.be
Take a moment to read the Lou Reed retrospective / obituary on the KEXP Blog - blog.kexp.org
Founding members Perry Farrell and Eric Avery bonded over a shared love of bands like The Velvet Underground, among others
One of the band's favourite covers, and one they played often live. Yoko Ono's "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" and Jonathan Richman's "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" are also included on Copenhagen
This cover first appeared on the 1978 (!) 7" Extended Play, one of Rough Trade's very first releases [RT 003]
In addition to her avant-garde musical forays, Anderson also taught art history and Egyptian architecture at City College in NYC in the '70s
Arcade Fire - LIVE on KEXP - 2 Night at 7:00 pm PST! They'll be playing hits old and new (off Reflektor, produced by Mr. LCD Soundsystem himself, James Murphy) for a full hour
Featuring Lou Reed on vocals and guitar (reputedly one of Antony Hegarty's major inspirations)
Reed got his musical start with a Doo Wop group called The Jades in the '50s
Referencing several folks from Lou Reed's Factory days - Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis and Joe Campbell -
"Walk on the Wild Side" sampled here and, to far less acclaim, by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch in 1991
Pro tip: cue this song up just before you go out for a night on the town... weird times guaranteed, just like these three guys (WONDER HOW THEY ALL GOT SO THIN AND COULD STAY AWAKE ALL NIGHT?!?) - tiny.cc
Bowie was recently voted the best dressed person in British history, beating Shaun Ryder by a sizable margin
Inspired by Reed's observations of goings-on at The Factory, of which he said "I would hear people say the most astonishing things, the craziest things, the funniest things, the saddest things"
Also known as the song Jesse Eisenberg's character in Adventureland seduced Kristen Stewart to
From a 1991 split 7" with Melvins, who in turn covered "Venus in Furs" (take some time to read the very funny, handwritten liner notes too) - www.discogs.com
Always worth re-watching their unplugged performance - youtu.be
The subtext for most of this album is: have a banana, you need potassium
Covering Will Oldham (a.k.a. Palace when he penned this tune)
LIVE TONIGHT at 7:00 pm PST here on KEXP! They're playing for a full hour so don't miss a second
Wonder where all that pink smoke is coming from...
Widely considered a major disappointment following his previous LP, 1975's Metal Machine Music *cough cough*
We have live video of Hoboken, New Jersey trio Yo La Tengo performing Live on KEXP you can watch here: blog.kexp.org